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Using industrial robots to replace millions of workers in the manufacturing sector (maybe agricultural and service sectors at some point!) is a hugely dangerous thing to do.
The freshly unemployed would not appreciate the economic advantages for the companies at all.
Instead, the more robots replace workers, the higher the likelihood for social and poilitcal unrest within the population. Especially in a country that has an excellent social welfare system like the US does, the average person will feel his/her livelihood threatened and take up arms to ensure it doesn't happen.
While it can't be said the exact same applies to China (as dissent and riots would be crushed), it is clear that the Chinese Politburo does have some good intentions for the general welfare of Chinese citizens. In some industries robots can be implemented in a limited manufacturing capacity not for the economic advantages to production, but to aid China's own robotics research and to enable the Chinese robotics industry to reach a technology level where it can compete with the household names of Japan, the US and Germany.
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